Original Sin by MCSquared16

Format: Commander

Commander: Sin, Spira's Punishment

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

Sin, Spira's Punishment leads a Sultai graveyard-centric battlecruiser strategy. The deck focuses on developing mana during the opening turns while seeding the graveyard through landcycling, incidental self-mill, and discard effects. Once seven mana is available, casting Sin immediately triggers its ability to exile a permanent card from the graveyard at random and create a token copy. As Sin attacks in subsequent turns, it continues generating token copies of high-impact creatures, artifacts, and enchantments to overwhelm the table. Supporting beaters such as Sepulchral Primordial, Diamond Weapon, and Ardyn, the Usurper provide redundant battlefield pressure, while Overrun and Shinryu, Transcendent Rival help convert board dominance into decisive player eliminations. The deck balances proactive board expansion with flexible reactive removal and sweepers like Bane of Progress and Summon: Leviathan, though its high mana curve and reliance on the graveyard leave it vulnerable to targeted hate and fast combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ahriman
  • 1 Airship Crash
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cloud of Darkness
  • 1 Combat Tutorial
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crossroads Village
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Diamond Weapon
  • 1 Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
  • 1 Evil Reawakened
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exdeath, Void Warlock // Neo Exdeath, Dimension's End
  • 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fight On!
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Gaius van Baelsar
  • 1 Galuf's Final Act
  • 1 Goobbue Gardener
  • 1 Gran Pulse Ochu
  • 1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 Hraesvelgr of the First Brood
  • 1 Ice Flan
  • 1 Iron Giant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Maester Seymour
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Malboro
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Omega, Heartless Evolution
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Overrun
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Poison the Waters
  • 1 Prishe's Wanderings
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rampant Rejuvenator
  • 1 Sephiroth's Intervention
  • 1 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Seymour Flux
  • 1 Sin, Spira's Punishment
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Summon: Leviathan
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swallowed by Leviathan
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 The Final Days
  • 1 Tonberry
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
  • 1 Ultimecia, Temporal Threat
  • 1 Ultimecia, Time Sorceress // Ultimecia, Omnipotent
  • 1 Ultros, Obnoxious Octopus
  • 1 Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie
  • 1 Vincent's Limit Break
  • 1 World Map
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival